people, and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, animated with the desire of re-establishing the relation of good understanding which subsisted between the two governments before the present war, and to put an end to the evils with which Europe is afflicted, have appointed for that purpose, for their plenipotentiaries, viz. the first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, citizen Charles Maurice Talleyrand, minister of foreign affairs; and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, the sieur Arcadi, count de Marcoff, his privy counsellor, and knight of the order of St. Alexander Neuski, and grand cross of that of St. Wlademir of the first class; who, after the verification and exchange of their full powers, have agreed upon the following articles: Art. I. There shall be in future peace, friendship, and good understanding, between the French republic and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias. II. In consequence, there shall not be committed any hostility between the two states, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty; and neither of the contracting parties shall furnish to the enemies' of the other, internal as well as external, any succour or contingent, in men or money, under any denomination whatever. III. The two contracting parties, wishing as much as is in their power to contribute to the tranquillity of the respective governments, promise mutually not to suffer any of their subjects to keep up any correspondence, direct or indirect; with the internal enemies of the present government of the two states, to propagate in them principles contrary to their respective consti tutions, tutions, or to foment troubles in them; and, as a consequence of this concert, every subject of one of the two powers who, during his residence in the states of the other, shåll make any attack upon its security, shall be immediately removed out of the said country, and carried beyond the frontier, without being able, in any case, to claim the protection of his government. IV. It is agreed to adhere, with respect to the re-establishment of the respective legations, and the ceremonies to be followed by the two governments, to that which was in use before the present war. V. The two contracting parties agree, till a new treaty of commerce be made, to re-establish the commercial relations between the two countries on the footing in which they were before the war, as far as possible, and with the exception of the modifications which time and circumstances may have produced, and which have given rise to new regulations. VI. The present treaty is declared to be common to the Batavian republic. VII. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, in the space of fifty days, or sooner if possible. In faith of which we, the undersigned, in virtue of our full powers, have signed and sealed the said treaty. Done at Paris, the 16th Vendé- THE COUNT DE MARCOFF. Preliminary Articles of Peace be tween the French Republic and the Ottoman Porte. The first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, wishing to put an end to the war which divides the two states, and to restore the ancient connexions which united them, have no minated for that purpose the ministers plenipotentiary, as follow: The first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, has appointed citizen Charles Maurice Talleyrand, minister of foreign affairs; and the Sublime Porte, its former ambassador, Basch-Muhassaee, and the ambassador Esseyd-Aly-Effendi who, after exchanging their full powers, agreed to the following articles: Art. I. There shall be peace and friendship between the French republic and the Sublime and Ottoman Porte: in consequence of which hostilities shall cease between the two powers from the date of the ratifications of the pre sent preliminary articles; immediately after which exchange, the whole province of Egypt shall be evacuated by the French army, and restored to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, whose territory and possessions in them shall be maintained in their integrity, in the same manner that they stood before the present war. It is understood that, after the evacuation, the conces sions which may be made in Egypt to other powers shall be common to the French. II. The French republic recognizes the constitution of the republic of the Seven Islands and the ExVenetian territory, situated on the continent. It guaranties the maintenance of their constitution. The Sublime Ottoman Porte, in that respect, is to guaranty the French republic, as well as that of Russia. III. Definitive arrangements shall be made between the French re 1 public and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, respecting the goods or property of their respective subjects confiscated or sequestered in the course of the war. The political or commercial agents, and the prisoners of war of all ranks, shall be set at liberty immediately after the signing of these preliminary articles. IV. The treaties which existed between France and the Sublime Ottoman Porte are renewed in their full extent; in consequence of which, the French republic shall fully enjoy in the states of his high ness the same rights of trade and navigation which it possessed heretofore, and those which the most favoured nations may hereafter pos His majesty the emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia, and the first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, having it equally at heart to put an end to the calamities of war, have resolved to proceed to the conclusion of a definitive treaty of peace and amity. His said imperial and royal majesty, not desiring less anxiously that the German empire should participate in the blessings of peace, and the present conjunctures not allowing the necessary time that the empire should be consulted, and for its intervention by its deputies in the negotiation; his said majesty besides, looking to what has been consented to by the deputation of the empire at the pre 1801 ceding congress of Rastadt, has resolved, after the example of what has been done in similar circumstances, to stipulate in the name of the Germanic body: In consequence of which, the parties contracting have named for their plenipotentiaries, to wit, his royal and imperial majesty, the sieur Louis de Cobentzel, count of the Roman empire, knight of the golden fleece, grand cross of the royal order of St. Stienna, and of the order of St. John of Jerusalem, chamberlain, present privy counsellor of his said imperial and royal majesty, his minister of conferences, and vicechancellor of his court and state: And the first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, citizen Joseph Bonaparte, counsellor of state: Who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles: I. There shall be for the future and ever, peace, friendship, and good understanding between his majesty the emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia, stipulating as well in his own name as in that of the Germanic empire, and the French republic, his said majesty binding himself to give for the said empire his ratification to the present treaty, in good and due form. The greatest attention shall be paid on the one side and on the other to the maintenance of perfect harmony, and to the prevention of all sort of hostilities by land or by sea, for any cause or any pretext whatsoever; always endeavouring with care to preserve the union happily re-established. No succour or protection shall be given, directly or indirectly, to those who would injure one or the other of the parties contracting. II. The cession of the ci-devant (L) Belgie Belgic provinces, stipulated by the third article of the treaty of Campo Formio, is renewed here in the most formal manner; so that his imperial and royal majesty, for himself and his successors, as well in his own name as in the name of the Germanic empire, renounces all his rights and titles to the said provinces, which shall be possessed in perpetuity, in full sovereignty and dominion, by the French republic, with all the territorial interests thereunto belonging. In like manner are ceded to the French re public, by his imperial and royal majesty, and with the formal consent of the empire, 1st, The country of Falkenstein, with its dependencies: 2d, The Frickthal, and all that belongs to the house of Austria upon the left bank of the Rhine between Zurzach and Basle; the French republic reserving to itself to cede this latter country to the Helvetic republic. III. In same manner, in the renewal and confirmation of the article VI. of the treaty of Campo Formio, his majesty the emperor and king shall possess in full sove reignty and dominion the countries hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, Istria, Dalmatia, and the ci devant Venetian islands of the Adriatic, and their dependencies; the mouths of Catarro, the city of Venice, the Legunes, and the countries comprised between the hereditary states of his majesty the emperor and king, the Adriatic Sea and the Adige, from its leaving the Tyrol to the place where it empties itself into the said sea, the Thalweg of the Adige serving for the line of limitation: and as the cities of Verona and Porto Legnago will be divided by this line, there shall be established upon the middle of the bridges of the said cities draw. bridges, which shall mark the separation. IV. The eighteenth article of the treaty of Campo Formio is also renewed in this; that his majesty the emperor and king binds himself to cede to the duke of Medena, as indemnity for the countries which that prince and his heirs have lost in Italy, the Brisgaw, which he shall possess on the same terms as those on which he possessed the Modenese. V. It is besides agreed, that his royal highness the grand duke of Tuscany renounces for himself, his successors, and all persons having title, the grand dukedom of Tuscany, and that part of the Isle of Elbe which depends on it; as also all the rights and titles resulting from those rights to said states, which shall be possessed in future in full sovereignty and dominion by his royal highness the infant duke of Parma. The grand duke shall obtain, in Germany, a full and complete indemnity for his states in Italy. The grand duke shall dispose of, at his pleasure, the property and effects which he possesses in Tuscany, whether by personal acquisition, or by inheritance of the personal acquisitions of his late majesty the emperor Leopold II., his father; or of his late majesty the emperor Francis I., his grandfather. It is also agreed, that the trusts, establishments, and other properties of the grand duchy, as well as the debts duly secured by mortgage on that country, shall pass to the new grand duke. VI. His majesty the emperor and king, as well in his own name as that of the Germanic empire, consents that the French republic shall possess in future in full sovereignty and property the countries and and domains situate on the left bank of the Rhine, and which make part of the Germanic empire, so as that, in conformity with what has been expressly agreed at the congress of Rastadt by the deputation of the empire and approved by the emperor, the Thalweg of the Rhine shall be in future the limit between the French republic and the Ger manic empire; that is to say, from the place where the Rhine leaves the Helvetic territory to the place where it enters the Bavarian territory. In consequence of which, the French republic formally renounces all its possessions whatsoever on the right bank of the Rhine, and consents to restore to those to whom they belong, the places of Dusseldorff, Ehrenbreitstein, Philipsbourg, the fort of Cassel, and other fortifications opposite Mentz on the right bank, the fort of Kehl, and the Vieux-Brissac, upon the express condition that these places and forts shall continue to remain in the state in which they shall be found at the time of the evacuation. VII. And as, by consequence of the cession which the empire makes to the French republic, several princes and states of the empire find themselves partially dispossessed in whole or in part, whilst it is for the Germanic empire collectively to sustain the losses resulting from the stipulations of the present treaty, it is agreed between his majesty the emperor and king, as well in his own name as in that of the Germanic empire, and the French re public, that in conformity with the principles formally established at the congress of Rastadt, the emperor shall be bound to give to the hereditary princes, who are dispossessed on the left bank of the Rhine, an indemnity which shall be taken in the bosom of the said em pire, following the arrangements which, according to these bases, shall be further determined. VIII. In all the ceded countries acquired or exchanged by the present treaty, it is agreed, in like manner as it has been by the ar ticles IV. and X. of the treaty of Campo Formio, that those to whom they shall belong shall charge themselves with the debts secured by mortgage on the soil of the said countries; but, seeing the difficulties which arise in that respect upon the interpretation of the said articles of the treaty of Campo Formio, it is expressly understood that the French republic does not take in its charge any but the debts resulting from loans formally agreed to by the states of the ceded coun tries, or of expenses contracted for the effective administration of the said countries. IX. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty there shall be granted, in all the countries ceded, ac quired, or exchanged, by the said treaty, to all the inhabitants or proprietors whomsoever, a removal of the sequestration placed upon their goods, properties, and reve nues, on account of the war which has taken place. The parties contracting bind themselves to pay every thing which they may owe for funds lent to them by the said individuals, as well as by the public establishments of the said countries; and to pay or reimburse all annuities granted in their favour upon any of them. In consequence of which it is expressly acknowledged that the owners of bills of the bank of Vienna, become French, shall continue to enjoy the benefit of their bills, and shall receive the interests due, or to become due, (L 2) notwith |